"ull-fledged Windows [XP] computer that measures 3 inches by 5 inches
Nice and small. What's the point in having a laptop unless it's plenty mobile?"
I'd ask what is the point of this thing. For this might as well use a PDA. I hardly see how a laptop of this size, or if it's even considered a laptop. Is very useful.
We all ready have webpads and small laptops. All laptops out there are plenty mobile. Also at the cost of this thing, it's doomed for failure. Why would you want this when you can have a very nice laptop for less. And not be so freaking small.
" Power plants are incredibly more efficient at producing electricity than your car engine."
This is for the most part false. While some powerplants are high efficency, like over 50 percent, that is rare. Most are in the 30-40 percent land the same as a car engine depending on fuel.
Also most powerplants in the US are coal, which is both very unclean, and not a very efficent plant. and nuclear plants can't be run at their full potentials do to safety concerns.
A new car engine is one of the most efficent power plants there is, also the cleanest.
If you go the ANL.gov and look for the GREET model you will find out why. From a well the wheel point of veiw Diesel is the best way to go. Since the model take into acount getting the energy and transporting it and so forth. Not just what's going on at your car. The main reason EV's arn't going to happen is the power has to be made someplace and when this is factored in, any gains are lost. Diesel fuel is cheap to produce and has high energy density. Also emissions levels for diesel are continualy improving. The reason diesels are big in Europe and not the US is there Mileage was most important, in the US emmissions is. So Diesels where not an option. Now Europe is changing do to polution.
Also Diesel technology has been going full steam in the last decade. Gasoline engine tech has pretty much flatlined, but diesel has been seeing more developement then any other engine. It's mature, but there is so much more to be worked out.
read your cnn article. Clinton didn't donate anything. He signed a waver. If anyone gave anything it was Loral. If you are going to have beef with anyone let it be loral. As the article pointed out clinton was only continuing standing policies.
If there was information give to china from loral that shouldn't have been, they should be the one you critisis. Besides, if it ensured less destructions of rockets and helped their program thats not a bad thing. Unless you want to see them fail over and over. Maybe right above your house.
I never said nothing happened with clinton and information, but it was most definitly not the way you want to make it look.
Maybe you will have to get your news from a real news network now that Rush is in re-hab, maybe you will be amazed what news is like when it's not from a person who admits he makes shit up.
Only republicans can make connections that if a US company works with china is must be ilegal and it must be the presidents fault.
CNN is all over things, just like they where all over gulf wars that were made possible by Bush and Regan in the 80's.
There is still a world of differance. WinXP is fully usefull for me in about 30-35seconds from the time i hit the power button. This is on any of my computers. Linux for me and any other computer I have seen it on is in the minutes range to boot. I'm sure people have it boot fast, but that in no way seams to be normal. Also if your using some sort of tweak to get faster boots that doesn't count either since when you are compairing you have to work in terms of out of the box. Since if you tell a person linux boots in X seconds and they go to install it, thats what they will have.
the hybrid escape is out june of 2004, for fleet use in december of 2003. they hybrid is just an option on top of the normal escape, so you still can get 4x4 and so forth.
most hybrids out perform there counter parts. The hondas don't fit in well since they are just lame mild hybrids. But the prius has zoom to it, the hybrid escape june 04' has better performance then the v6 model and gets 40mpg
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" The Beatles don't control Apple Records anymore. I believe that EMI controls Apple."
I belive Micheal Jackson controls all the beatles works. So I would say he is sueing Apple.
but still it's important for linux to have apps ment for it, not to just run on it. No matter what you do, having a app that can run on an OS is not the same as an app that was ment to run on an OS even if it comes down to the users mental conception.
I had the 9th edition, the book is full of errors and in general just does a piss poor job of explaining and giving solid examples. I had to use it for 3 college classes. For unknown reasons my university still uses it.
I didn't have a HS calc book, well I didn't have any math books since like 9th grade since my school couldn't afford them. Also school didn't have AP classes and didn't know i could take an AP exam without taking a class till way after the fact. Having to re-learn all your math basicly once you get to college because your HS sucked is not fun.
Go to the nearest university book store, or even just find the web page for a universities math department and find the text book for the subjects you want and order it online.
I don't think very many text books just give you a equation and say use this. My HS was a poor ass sucky redneck school and didn't do that, we just didn't have much of a variety in subjects. Also I think saying books just do what the states require only applies to states with said systems. Many, maybe most, just say you need to have a class in this that and the other thing.
Also once you get into learning the hows and whys of lots of math you will see why people tend to just want the equation, far less frustrating and confusing for learning. Learning how to do it and then going back for the why is often better for subjects like math. Same for say engineer, it seams a whole lot more fun till your actualy doing it and find out 99% of it sucks big time and is not what you think engineers do.
One book to stay away from if calc. is you game is Thomas Finny, that book sucks beyond belief.
first, no software isn't very real, it's very loosely something that exist. Aside from we see effects of it thats about it.
"Do we really want to live in a world where if i have a thought, I must pay M$ for thinking an idea that they have claimed to own?"
This has been the world for 100s of years. And sure in some ways it sucks to come up with a idea, maybe even think of how to make a business around it and then to find out someone else already did it. Or has claim over it stopping you. But at the same time think of the reverse. You have an idea, maybe something you want to make a business out of. You keap thinking about it and one day someone else pops up and it using your idea. Well shit your plans just got ruined, you've been thinking about it before that person (you think anyways) and now their running with the idea. You can't do shit now. Or will simply looking like a copier. If you had acted and soon as you had the idea taken action to secure it you would have been ok, but you didn't.
I know I continuously see things come out that I had thought up years ago. But I can't do anything cause I didn't do anything to show I claimed it first. They way it is can suck, but not having it sucks to.
At my university, PSU, and many others these exist to. But for some reason they are not called Flash Mobs, they are called riots. They also always taste like pepper spray.
Did you know pepper spray comes in more then one flavor?
beat me to it. But yeah I was curious to see that on there. That would have been interesting to see in court on how a few million people are the same person.
They will happen in time. As time goes by computers will become solid state and very small. Basicly they will be tiny single chip deals that are powerfull as any computer today and cheap as a stamp. Then everything can have a computer doing something. Maybe ones sock will want to message the other socks that is has been lost between the washer and dryer. You get the idea. Micro computers will be a basic building block like steel, wood, and beer.
I'm curious to, but i think it's something like this. If I have a log laying on the ground i can rotate it around to put it in it's proper place. But if i stand it on end and rotate it about its axis to get it in its differant positions its not covering nearly as much space. But keaping it standing up is the problem since it naturaly wants to fall over, and you can't attach the base of it to the ground very well if your going to be spinning it all the time.
This is just my thought on what there doing. But how data is actualy stored on a disk is a mystery to me, all i have is guesses. Soon as i think that one little thing not going the right way destroys a file causes me to think it must be weird magic voodoo.
those allready exist, and pretty common to. Many companies sell 2 drive raid setups with firewire connections. Also I have seen people put 4 2.5 inch HD's in a raid setup, and inside a Shuttle XPC of all places.
I agree on the raid stuff though. I think soon i'm going to start making all my computers with at least a raid 1 setup and even better a 0+1 setup. HD's are getting cheap. RAID interfaces are getting very common, and SATA seams to be bring RAID with it. 4 WD raptors in a box could make for fun. And noise:(
well as it is now the platters in 3.5 inch drives are no longer 3.5 inches, they have been getting smaller as they bump up speed of drives. It's physics, you just can't get speed with a big disk. Since the density of the platters for storage has increase shrinking the diameter has been ok. 3.5 inch drive is more of a form factor at this point, not a actualy dimension for the platters. I think the platters for the WD raptor a 10,000 rpm SATA drive are about 2.5 inches across.
I like the move to smaller drives, This will be nice as people try to make computers smaller. I would also like to see a mini cd DVD format with mini cd drive only drives, shrink things up some more.
I'm curious when they will make platters about 1 inch across and stack them on a shaft a few inches long and lay them flat in a drive case, instead of a few vertical slow platters, a whole bunch of horizontal fast small platters.
The drive is the hold up in speed. It's the mechanical aspects that get hit by physics the most. When they get drives that go faster they can come up with a bus for it without much trouble. But currently why design a interface for HDs that can do say 1 terabyte/s if the drive can't even do 1/1000th of that. The electronics are simple, the drives arn't.
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"ull-fledged Windows [XP] computer that measures 3 inches by 5 inches
Nice and small. What's the point in having a laptop unless it's plenty mobile?"
I'd ask what is the point of this thing. For this might as well use a PDA. I hardly see how a laptop of this size, or if it's even considered a laptop. Is very useful.
We all ready have webpads and small laptops. All laptops out there are plenty mobile. Also at the cost of this thing, it's doomed for failure. Why would you want this when you can have a very nice laptop for less. And not be so freaking small.
Maybe it will sell in Japan though
" Power plants are incredibly more efficient at producing electricity than your car engine."
This is for the most part false. While some powerplants are high efficency, like over 50 percent, that is rare. Most are in the 30-40 percent land the same as a car engine depending on fuel.
Also most powerplants in the US are coal, which is both very unclean, and not a very efficent plant. and nuclear plants can't be run at their full potentials do to safety concerns.
A new car engine is one of the most efficent power plants there is, also the cleanest.
If you go the ANL.gov and look for the GREET model you will find out why. From a well the wheel point of veiw Diesel is the best way to go. Since the model take into acount getting the energy and transporting it and so forth. Not just what's going on at your car. The main reason EV's arn't going to happen is the power has to be made someplace and when this is factored in, any gains are lost. Diesel fuel is cheap to produce and has high energy density. Also emissions levels for diesel are continualy improving. The reason diesels are big in Europe and not the US is there Mileage was most important, in the US emmissions is. So Diesels where not an option. Now Europe is changing do to polution.
Also Diesel technology has been going full steam in the last decade. Gasoline engine tech has pretty much flatlined, but diesel has been seeing more developement then any other engine. It's mature, but there is so much more to be worked out.
No PAUL isn't dead.....JOHN and GEORGE are dead.
read your cnn article. Clinton didn't donate anything. He signed a waver. If anyone gave anything it was Loral. If you are going to have beef with anyone let it be loral. As the article pointed out clinton was only continuing standing policies.
If there was information give to china from loral that shouldn't have been, they should be the one you critisis. Besides, if it ensured less destructions of rockets and helped their program thats not a bad thing. Unless you want to see them fail over and over. Maybe right above your house.
I never said nothing happened with clinton and information, but it was most definitly not the way you want to make it look.
Holy shit, you need you're head kicked in.
Maybe you will have to get your news from a real news network now that Rush is in re-hab, maybe you will be amazed what news is like when it's not from a person who admits he makes shit up.
Only republicans can make connections that if a US company works with china is must be ilegal and it must be the presidents fault.
CNN is all over things, just like they where all over gulf wars that were made possible by Bush and Regan in the 80's.
There is still a world of differance. WinXP is fully usefull for me in about 30-35seconds from the time i hit the power button. This is on any of my computers. Linux for me and any other computer I have seen it on is in the minutes range to boot. I'm sure people have it boot fast, but that in no way seams to be normal. Also if your using some sort of tweak to get faster boots that doesn't count either since when you are compairing you have to work in terms of out of the box. Since if you tell a person linux boots in X seconds and they go to install it, thats what they will have.
I really wish one could get real chrome look on a screen. That would be nice. But i'm not going to hold my breath for nice shinny/glossy colors.
the hybrid escape is out june of 2004, for fleet use in december of 2003. they hybrid is just an option on top of the normal escape, so you still can get 4x4 and so forth.
most hybrids out perform there counter parts. The hondas don't fit in well since they are just lame mild hybrids. But the prius has zoom to it, the hybrid escape june 04' has better performance then the v6 model and gets 40mpg
" The Beatles don't control Apple Records anymore. I believe that EMI controls Apple."
I belive Micheal Jackson controls all the beatles works. So I would say he is sueing Apple.
IE: A fruit is sueing another fruit.
"On Soviet Mars nuclear plants power you!"
yeah thats what there going for, to have nuke plants on mars to power you. Stop copying the headline.
you ruined the 6 insightfuls in a row formation.
but still it's important for linux to have apps ment for it, not to just run on it. No matter what you do, having a app that can run on an OS is not the same as an app that was ment to run on an OS even if it comes down to the users mental conception.
I had the 9th edition, the book is full of errors and in general just does a piss poor job of explaining and giving solid examples. I had to use it for 3 college classes. For unknown reasons my university still uses it.
I didn't have a HS calc book, well I didn't have any math books since like 9th grade since my school couldn't afford them. Also school didn't have AP classes and didn't know i could take an AP exam without taking a class till way after the fact. Having to re-learn all your math basicly once you get to college because your HS sucked is not fun.
Go to the nearest university book store, or even just find the web page for a universities math department and find the text book for the subjects you want and order it online.
I don't think very many text books just give you a equation and say use this. My HS was a poor ass sucky redneck school and didn't do that, we just didn't have much of a variety in subjects. Also I think saying books just do what the states require only applies to states with said systems. Many, maybe most, just say you need to have a class in this that and the other thing.
Also once you get into learning the hows and whys of lots of math you will see why people tend to just want the equation, far less frustrating and confusing for learning. Learning how to do it and then going back for the why is often better for subjects like math. Same for say engineer, it seams a whole lot more fun till your actualy doing it and find out 99% of it sucks big time and is not what you think engineers do.
One book to stay away from if calc. is you game is Thomas Finny, that book sucks beyond belief.
first, no software isn't very real, it's very loosely something that exist. Aside from we see effects of it thats about it.
"Do we really want to live in a world where if i have a thought, I must pay M$ for thinking an idea that they have claimed to own?"
This has been the world for 100s of years. And sure in some ways it sucks to come up with a idea, maybe even think of how to make a business around it and then to find out someone else already did it. Or has claim over it stopping you. But at the same time think of the reverse. You have an idea, maybe something you want to make a business out of. You keap thinking about it and one day someone else pops up and it using your idea. Well shit your plans just got ruined, you've been thinking about it before that person (you think anyways) and now their running with the idea. You can't do shit now. Or will simply looking like a copier. If you had acted and soon as you had the idea taken action to secure it you would have been ok, but you didn't.
I know I continuously see things come out that I had thought up years ago. But I can't do anything cause I didn't do anything to show I claimed it first. They way it is can suck, but not having it sucks to.
Think often, Patent first.
"yet not passing on one red cent to the artist."
Pennies are copper colored, though sometimes green to.
At my university, PSU, and many others these exist to. But for some reason they are not called Flash Mobs, they are called riots. They also always taste like pepper spray.
Did you know pepper spray comes in more then one flavor?
beat me to it. But yeah I was curious to see that on there. That would have been interesting to see in court on how a few million people are the same person.
They will happen in time. As time goes by computers will become solid state and very small. Basicly they will be tiny single chip deals that are powerfull as any computer today and cheap as a stamp. Then everything can have a computer doing something. Maybe ones sock will want to message the other socks that is has been lost between the washer and dryer. You get the idea. Micro computers will be a basic building block like steel, wood, and beer.
" Forget that crap. We all know that isn't practical. Just use smaller fonts. That works today."
.'s and ,'s they are much smaller.
Just switch from 1's and 0's to
I'm curious to, but i think it's something like this. If I have a log laying on the ground i can rotate it around to put it in it's proper place. But if i stand it on end and rotate it about its axis to get it in its differant positions its not covering nearly as much space. But keaping it standing up is the problem since it naturaly wants to fall over, and you can't attach the base of it to the ground very well if your going to be spinning it all the time.
This is just my thought on what there doing. But how data is actualy stored on a disk is a mystery to me, all i have is guesses. Soon as i think that one little thing not going the right way destroys a file causes me to think it must be weird magic voodoo.
those allready exist, and pretty common to. Many companies sell 2 drive raid setups with firewire connections. Also I have seen people put 4 2.5 inch HD's in a raid setup, and inside a Shuttle XPC of all places.
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I agree on the raid stuff though. I think soon i'm going to start making all my computers with at least a raid 1 setup and even better a 0+1 setup. HD's are getting cheap. RAID interfaces are getting very common, and SATA seams to be bring RAID with it. 4 WD raptors in a box could make for fun. And noise
well as it is now the platters in 3.5 inch drives are no longer 3.5 inches, they have been getting smaller as they bump up speed of drives. It's physics, you just can't get speed with a big disk. Since the density of the platters for storage has increase shrinking the diameter has been ok. 3.5 inch drive is more of a form factor at this point, not a actualy dimension for the platters. I think the platters for the WD raptor a 10,000 rpm SATA drive are about 2.5 inches across.
I like the move to smaller drives, This will be nice as people try to make computers smaller. I would also like to see a mini cd DVD format with mini cd drive only drives, shrink things up some more.
I'm curious when they will make platters about 1 inch across and stack them on a shaft a few inches long and lay them flat in a drive case, instead of a few vertical slow platters, a whole bunch of horizontal fast small platters.
The drive is the hold up in speed. It's the mechanical aspects that get hit by physics the most. When they get drives that go faster they can come up with a bus for it without much trouble. But currently why design a interface for HDs that can do say 1 terabyte/s if the drive can't even do 1/1000th of that. The electronics are simple, the drives arn't.
What ever happen to solid state drives?